GERMANY’S STEEL EXPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 9

GERMANY’S STEEL EXPORTS

SHIPMENTS LAST YEAB WERE ABOVE ENGLAND’S The outstanding development last year in the European steel industry, and one which has considerable bearing upon the general steel export situation in the world, was the achievement of the German industry in selling to foreign consumers. Official records now available show that Germany last year regained her pre-war position as the leading steel exporting nation of the world, tho total shipment of 1926 being 4,824,000 gross tons, with scrap not included, or at the rate of 402,000 tons per month, against about 2,000,000 and 3,000,000, for the United States and England respectively. How this remarkable achievement compares with the preceding year and with 1913 is shown in the following table, giving the exports in gross tons per month. Tons Tons 1926—402,000 1924—128,000 1925—267,000 1913—517,300 In 1913 the total included the exports of Luxemburg. With this allowed for it is probable that in 1926 Germany virtually equalled her own pre-war record; a remarkable recovery in view of the fact that her ateel-making territory was considerably lessened as a result of the war. Figures for January show that in the present year the rate is undiminished, the exports for that month, at 478,400 tons, being larger than any month in 1926 and greater than the average for that year.